Pleasant Grove Review | 1950-10-20 | Page 6 | Invisible Radioactive Dust could Poison Large Area

Invisible Radioactive Dust Could Poison Large Area CAMBRIDGE, England An invisible in-visible film of radioactive matter can be used to make a land area uninhabitable "for several months," a British atomic scientist reports. Prof. E. S. Shire, an atomic researcher re-searcher reports: "Details are still secret about Quantities, but I think that the radioactive ra-dioactive poisons from a 1,000.000-kilowatt 1,000.000-kilowatt pile could cover 1,000 square miles, say the size of greater great-er London. r "I should be surprised if the United States has not now atomic piles totaling much more than 000.000 kilowatts. A pile is a device for "burning" fissionable matter, such as plutoni-um plutoni-um to produce power.